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Boko Haram kidnapped 200 Nigerian girls, the Congressional Black Caucus [CBC] called
a press conference in front of the Nigerian Embassy. Representatives Marcia
Fudge (D-Ohio), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Karen
Bass (D-Calif.) demanded that the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls be returned
safely.
“We want our girls back and we want them back now,” Barbara Lee, Oakland’s Democratic
representative said. “We want this terrorist group brought to justice, and we
want the slaughter and the intimidation, the trafficking, the murders stopped
today.”
The neo-cons running the US government used the CBC’s‘Charley McCarthy’ Negroes to send Boko Haram a very strong
message: the U.S. is out for blood.

Left
to themseves, the Congressional Black Caucus has few “black” issues on their
agenda. The missing 64,000 African American women and children are of little concern
to the CBC. Missing black women and children do not receive the same media
attention as missing white women and children. So it is not surprising that the
CBC does not speak out even though a 2010 report shows that out of 273,985
missing minorities, 85 percent were African American. Nor is the CBC interested
in the alarming increase in black people being killed by whites. Not even the
killing of a 93-year-old Texas woman moves the CBC to issue a statement. Some might
claim that the CBC cares little about black people or their issues. That Barbara
Lee is more concerned about whites can be demonstrated by the fact that she
brought the daughter of the segregationist bigot, George Wallace, to Oakland to
explain her father’s role in the civil rights movement. Yet, the CBC is no
worse than the ‘first’ black president. As a presidential candidate, Obama
promised black people absolutely nothing and, in the past six years, the president
has delivered on his promise. However, since whites only allow ‘Charlie McCarthy’ Negroes to hold
elected office, it might be that the CBC’s interest in Nigeria bears closer
scrutiny.

Any interest in Nigeria begins
with oil. Since 1970, Nigeria’s oil production has generated $380 billion from
American and European oil producers. Yet oil revenues have failed to raise
incomes in Nigeria and 98% of Nigerian’s 200 million citizens live in squalor
and poverty. What oil has brought Nigeria is war, famine and political
corruption. Between 1967 and 1970, Europeans instigated the Igbo tribe to wage a
bloody civil war in an attempt to secede from Nigeria and claim the oil rights
on traditional Ibo lands. Similar unrest broke out in the Niger Delta among the
Ogoni and Ijaw tribes. They too were urged to grab their share of Nigeria’s oil
revenues by European oil interests. But America and Great Britain provided the Nigerian
government the weapons and military advisors required to subdue all tribal succession
efforts. American and British producers wanted to maintain a monopoly over
Nigeria’s oil.

Nigeria
policy to crush tribal succession efforts was not intended to benefit its
people. The government was taken over by powerful war lords who built patronage
networks during the period of tribal insurgency. These war lords used their
control over the Nigerian government to control political offices and grow huge
personal fortunes. All levels of the Nigerian government __ federal, state, and
local ___ operate as a feudal state in a medieval society, barbarous and
brutish. The war lords maintain their power using heavily armed personal
militias and exercise all governmental authority within their own personal
fiefdoms. Even though several governors
are under indictment for money laundering abroad and many local politicians are
being investigated for a litany of crimes, Nigeria’s war lords continually
siphons off the oil revenues that pours into Nigeria’s public coffers while the
country’s political and economic infrastructure and public works deteriorate.

In
addition to its war lords, corrupt civil officials conspire with European and
American corporations to steal the oil generated wealth of the nation. Corruption
attends all governmental activities ___ contracts, the allocation of benefits,
collection of public revenues, and judicial decisions. Public funds set aside for
public works, water, sanitation and roads, are routinely looted through ‘white
elephant’ projects. Nigerian officials routinely abuse their positions to grab
whatever oil profits become available. Nigeria’s bureaucracies generate waste,
thuggery and disrespect for the rule of law. Nigeria’s period of military rule
was pathetic; the present regime is disgraceful.

Economic
stagnation and a massive increase in young people has splintered Nigeria’s
Muslim community. The youth are aggrieved and radicalized by the activities of the
government and private oil firms. No roads, no water, no light, no schools, no hospitals.
People are at the limits of their desperation. A spark was caused by President
Goodluck Jonathan’s rash and abrupt decision to abolish subsidies from oil
revenues in 2012. The removal of the oil subsidies caused an immediate doubling
in food and oil prices. Five days of strikes, brought the government to its
knees. These conditions spawned the Islamic insurrectionary movement known as
Boko Haram also known in Arabic as People
Committed to the Propagation to the Prophet’s teachings and Jihad. They are
uninterested in talking because talking has produced nothing. The youth believe
that the only way to get the attention of the Nigerian government and oil
firms, the only way to address the unacceptable levels of poverty, is to become
militant. Over the past year, Boko Haram has initiated militant attacks,
political assassinations and suicide bombings against the Nigerians they blame
for the political corruption, environmental disintegration and neo-colonialist
exploitation. The movement is fueled by the starvation of millions.

So
into this IMF-caused hell hole enters the United States, weapons bristling and
drones prepared for launch. The CBC has issued no idle threat. The US and its
European allies, once again, intend to murder those driven to desperation by
their trade agreements with facists rulers. Barbara Lee and her Congressional
Black Caucus confederates accurately express the intention of Washington-based
neo-cons and big oil interests.

Camp
Lemonnier is the only ‘official’ U.S. base in Africa. According to The
Washington Post, Camp Lemonnier is the "busiest Predator drone base
outside Afghanistan." Camp Lemonnier is central to drone operations in
Somalia and Yemen. The base primarily serves the Combined Joint Task Force/Horn
of Africa and currently houses more than 2,000 U.S. personnel. However, the
U.S. military's presence in Africa extends far beyond Camp Lemonnier. The US
military conducts operations with almost every African military force and in
almost every African country and averages many missions each day. The U.S. wages
wars from Libya to the Central African Republic and Mali. It conducts airstrikes
and abduction missions using special operations forces in countries from
Somalia to Sudan.

Large
engineering and construction firms doing business for the Pentagon know what
the U.S. military is planning for Africa. For years, U.S. Africa Command
(AFRICOM) has maintained its secrecy and consistently downplayed the size, scale,
and scope of its efforts. Now the Pentagon and the representatives of some
of the biggest engineering firms on the planet are planning the future of
Africa ____ and they are talking war.

Here
is the reality of the war preparations being made. Over the last several
years, the U.S. has built drone bases across Africa, for intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, but now these drone sites are going deadly.
“We have shifted from our original intent of being a more congenial combatant
command to an actual war-fighting combatant command,” AFRICOM’s Rick Cook
explained to an audience of big-money defense contractors.

The
U.S. has been “at war” in Africa for the last two and half years. Boko Haram cannot
be understood without knowing how the US military is unleashing death and
destruction from Somalia and Mali to West Africa. If there is one event that
hints at what is in store for Nigeria, it is the vicious NATO obliteration of
the state of Libya. U.S. policy-makers are unconcerned with the school girls in
Nigeria; they have armed Boko Haram in the North to justify their real goal of
occupying the oil fields in the South and killing all indigenous peoples who
get in the way. So to prepare Americans for yet another bloodbath, the ‘Charlie McCarthy’ Negroes in the
Congressional Black Caucus have been told to issue their propaganda statement
____ and then go back to sleep.